The TV host said he thought of his behaviour between 1999 and 2004 as impressions of celebrities and 'nothing more'.
The US TV host wore black face to impersonate the rapper Snoop Dogg
"We hired makeup artists to make me look as much like Karl Malone as possible. I never considered that this might be seen as anything other than an imitation of a fellow human being, one that had no more to do with Karl's skin colour than it did his bulging muscles and bald head.
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